You need to set 'receiver_verify = true', so any mail to unknown users
at your site
will be rejected by Exim with a :550 User Unknown message.
Martyn
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Postmaster
Network Services Group
University of Glamorgan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Proudfoot [SMTP:jproudfo@???]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 11:09 PM
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: [EXIM] Exim not bouncing mail to non-exstant accounts?
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I've noticed over the last couple of weeks that exim doesn't appear to
> be
> bouncing mail addressed to accounts that don't exist on my system.
> Instead,
> it seems to queue them and retry every few hours.
>
> This means if I remove a user, his/her mail will remain cued in the
> machine
> and send out bounces every few hours when it does a retry. This is
> really
> annoying of the use was on multiple mailing lists. I had a case where
> a site
> was being sent almost 1000 bounces a day from a recently deleted
> account
> (actual mailing list traffic was sigificantly less than that).
>
> I'm running exim 1.92 on Redhat Linux 5.1 (2.0.35).
>
> Anyone know why it would do this? Something I may have done in the
> configuration?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jared Proudfoot
>
>
>
>
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